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In Search of Lost Time ( French: À la recherche du temps perdu ), first translated into English as Remembrance of Things Past, and sometimes referred to in French as La Recherche ( The Search ), is a novel in seven volumes by French author Marcel Proust.
- Marcel Proust
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- 1913
- 1913–1927
Swann’s Way is a novel by French author Marcel Proust that was first published in 1913. It is the first and best-known volume in Proust’s seven-title work In Search of Lost Time ( À la recherche du temps perdu ), which is considered by many critics to be one of the greatest literary achievements of all time.
Marcel spies on the two lovers as they mock the memory of the recently deceased Vinteuil. On a separate walk, Marcel and his family chance across Swann's wife, Odette, and her daughter, Gilberte. Marcel instantly falls in love with Gilberte, but idealizes her to such an extent that he thinks her black eyes are really blue.
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- Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin
- 1925
Swann’s Way is one of the preeminent novels of childhood: a sensitive boy’s impressions of his family and neighbors, all brought dazzlingly back to life years later by the taste of a madeleine. It also enfolds the short novel “Swann in Love,” an incomparable study of sexual jealousy that becomes a crucial part of the vast, unfolding ...
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Mar 22, 2003 · SWANN'S WAY Remembrance Of Things Past, Volume One By Marcel Proust Translated From The French By C. K. Scott Moncrieff NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1922
‘Swann's Way’ is the first of seven volumes of Marcel Proust's ‘In Search of Lost Time’. Proust tells a tale of his childhood, being the narrator of the novel. 'In Search of Lost Time' explores the passage of time and the absence of meaning in the world as it follows the narrator's childhood memories and experiences into ...
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